According to one version of internalism, which David Brink calls "agent internalism," in virtue of the concept of morality, moral obligations (or moral reasons, on a two-step internalism linking obligations, reasons, and motives) necessarily motivate the agent to act morally (see Brink 1986, 28).
Attempting to load corporations with some type of deontological or virtue-based system of morality does not make the slightest bit of sense.
This leads MacIntyre to conclude that patriotism is not to be contrasted with morality; it is rather a central moral virtue, indeed the bedrock of morality.
Bentham delineated four "sanctions" or sources of pain and pleasure, which he may have learnt from Gay's essay Concerning the Fundamental Principle of Virtue or Morality (1731): physical, political, moral, and religious.
Religion is not the source of morality, virtue, and ethics.
In fact there is a broad consensus, or near-consensus, among ethical theorists on a doctrine we might call the priority of virtue: broadly and crudely speaking, the demands of virtue or morality trump other values in life.[26] We ought above all to act and live well, or at least not badly or wrongly.
Socrates usually by asking questions succeeds in getting the other interlocutors to think more carefully about their preconceived notions of virtue and morality, illustrating how in many cases that the results of their definitions will lead to inconsistencies.
We have mistakenly allowed health to take on a patina of virtue and morality.
Ms. al-Tahawy was selected to write for the magazine of the Muslim Brotherhood, focusing on themes of morality and virtue within a literary narrative.
As for what that end might be, it can be virtually any kind of inappropriateness (sex, expenses, dodgy opinions) as judged by those great arbiters of morality and virtue, the press and the people.
Still, for progressives, the eroding power of the churches is a most welcome development: the religions right can no longer claim to be the sole source of morality and virtue, nor can they expect to assert their will in political matters and be obeyed without question.
